Breaking boundaries: Optimizing reconsolidation-based interventions for strong and old memories

Learning and Memory

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 472-479

  Elsey, James W B ^a   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STRESS; ANIMAL; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85027557188     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.044156.116     Document Type: Article

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